[Ads-l] "He shook his head yes."
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri May 26 18:50:39 UTC 2017
As he said this, the speaker mimed *nodding* his head yes, of course.
This is no new thing, in my experience. Is "nod" going the way of "farther"
and "-l[ai]ved"?
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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